Ontario Grade 12 BTX4E Information and Communication Technology in the Workplace (Grade 12, Workplace Preparation)
Chapters: 4
1. Project Management
1 Team-Based Project Management · 2 Electronic Project Management Tools · 3 Multimedia Product
- Leadership and Management: Leading People, Teams and Change – Management gets work done through planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling. Leadership inspires people to work towards a shared goal. Leaders choose a style that fits the people and the task, build qualities like communication and integrity, guide teams through their stages, plan projects with schedules, delegate well, and help people accept change.
2. The Electronic Workplace Environment
1 The Digital Workplace · 2 The Impact of Information and Communication Technology · 3 Workplace Ethics
- Environmental Stewardship: Caring for the Planet as We Use Technology – Environmental stewardship means using the Earth's resources carefully so they last, and fixing harm where we can. Every product, from a phone to a hospital machine, has a life cycle: raw materials, making, transport, use and end of life. Each stage uses energy and makes waste. Good stewards keep products longer, choose efficient machines, follow the waste hierarchy (refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, then dispose), send e-waste to proper recyclers and support laws and company practices that protect nature. Technology can harm the environment, but it can also help: solar panels, LEDs and smart sensors cut waste.
- Ethics: How to Decide What Is Right – Ethics (moral philosophy) asks what we ought to do and why. Values such as honesty, kindness, fairness and respect guide choices. Three main theories help: consequences (utilitarianism, Bentham and Mill: most good for most people), duty (Kant: act on rules you could want everyone to follow; treat people as ends, never only as means) and virtue (Aristotle: build good character; virtue is the mean between extremes). Conscience is our inner sense of right and wrong. Freedom brings responsibility. Meta-ethics asks what "good" means and whether values are universal or relative. Applied ethics deals with the environment, animals, work, friendship and peace.
3. Applications Software
1 Integrating Applications · 2 Multimedia · 3 Using Software for a Team Project
- ICT: Working Well in the Digital Environment – Information and communication technology (ICT) means the digital tools we use to create, store, find and share information. In any workplace you will use a word processor for documents, a spreadsheet for numbers, design software for flyers and slides, and e-mail, chat and video calls to communicate, with files kept in the cloud. Good research online means smart search techniques and checking each source for currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose, then citing it. Data often moves between apps by import and export in shared formats like CSV and PDF. Professional e-communication follows clear etiquette. Finally, you collect your best work in a digital portfolio that shows employers your skills.
4. Electronic Communications and Teamwork
1 Electronic Research and Communication · 2 The Team Process · 3 Software and electronic tools to implement organizational
- ICT: Working Well in the Digital Environment – Information and communication technology (ICT) means the digital tools we use to create, store, find and share information. In any workplace you will use a word processor for documents, a spreadsheet for numbers, design software for flyers and slides, and e-mail, chat and video calls to communicate, with files kept in the cloud. Good research online means smart search techniques and checking each source for currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose, then citing it. Data often moves between apps by import and export in shared formats like CSV and PDF. Professional e-communication follows clear etiquette. Finally, you collect your best work in a digital portfolio that shows employers your skills.
- Environmental Stewardship: Caring for the Planet as We Use Technology – Environmental stewardship means using the Earth's resources carefully so they last, and fixing harm where we can. Every product, from a phone to a hospital machine, has a life cycle: raw materials, making, transport, use and end of life. Each stage uses energy and makes waste. Good stewards keep products longer, choose efficient machines, follow the waste hierarchy (refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, then dispose), send e-waste to proper recyclers and support laws and company practices that protect nature. Technology can harm the environment, but it can also help: solar panels, LEDs and smart sensors cut waste.
- Leadership and Management: Leading People, Teams and Change – Management gets work done through planning, organising, staffing, directing and controlling. Leadership inspires people to work towards a shared goal. Leaders choose a style that fits the people and the task, build qualities like communication and integrity, guide teams through their stages, plan projects with schedules, delegate well, and help people accept change.